Economic development presumes not only the existence of formal institutions such as property rights and the rule of law under which behave economic agents, but also certain norms or social values that promote exchange, savings and investments. In this context, we discuss cultural dimension of...

The field of talent management (TM) has grown over the last two decades, and much theoretical and methodological progress has been made in an effort to better conceptualize the field. Despite these efforts, the construction of knowledge within TM research has ignored power and gender dynamics....

This article has the aim of considering whether managerial control, no matter its form, has outlived, its usefulness in postbureaucratic society, and if so, whether it can be replaced by a more emancipatory discourse among local practitioners as they confront the immanent requirements of social...

Everyone agrees that job prospects for many new law graduates have been poor for the last several years; there is rather less consensus on whether, when, how, or why that may change as the economy recovers from the Great Recession. This Article analyzes historical and current trends in the job...

This Article discusses the financial viability of law schools in the face of massive structural changes now occurring within the legal industry. It then offers a blueprint for change – a realistic way for law schools to retool themselves in an attempt to provide our students with high quality...

Social Service Agency workers suffer low pay, poor supervision, burdensome paperwork, and contradictory, self-defeating mandates, all of which degrade the quality of care to needy clients. Agencies, organized hierarchically, pay high executive salaries, and fail to question government and MCO...

This study examines how the matching of individuals and employers based on educational credentials contributes to intra-occupational inequality. Treating six U.S. law firm dissolutions as mobility quasi-experiments, I analyze 1,426 lawyers’ post-dissolution labor market outcomes and establish...

The Russian Finance Ministry has declared that all banks and large Russian enterprises must prepare their financial statements based on international financial reporting standards (IFRS) as of January 1, 2004, a full year ahead of the European Union deadline for EU member countries. The problem...

In this paper, we explore the relationship among rank, knowledge, ability, experience, and success in managerial accounting practice. More specifically, we investigate the predictive validity of the Libby amp; Luft (Lamp;L) model (1993) of the determinants of judgment performance. We implement...

Using manager compensation disclosure and intra-family manager cooperation measures, we create indices of family-level competitive/cooperative incentives. Families that encourage cooperation among their managers are more likely to engage in coordinated behavior (e.g., cross-trading,...